Farah Jasmine Griffin

Farah Jasmine Griffin is William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University. She has written a number of books including If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (2001) and Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics in New York During World War II (2013).

FictionJuly 15, 2019

The Worlds of Kathleen Collins

The quiet brilliance of her films and fiction was found in her ability to to place the interior and subjective in the context of the social and political.

Farah Jasmine Griffin
BiographyAugust 16, 2018

Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter

Angela Davis, whose bond Franklin offered to post in 1970, says that the singer’s work “helped to shape and deepen a collective consciousness anchored in a yearning for freedom.”

Farah Jasmine Griffin
FeminismJune 27, 2014

Loving Billie Holiday Doesn’t Mean Black Girls Aren’t Suffering

Joshua DuBois makes an unconvincing argument against the criticism of President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

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Farah Jasmine Griffin

FictionJuly 15, 2019

The quiet brilliance of her films and fiction was found in her ability to to place the interior and subjective in the context of the social and political.

BiographyAugust 16, 2018

Angela Davis, whose bond Franklin offered to post in 1970, says that the singer’s work “helped to shape and deepen a collective consciousness anchored in a yearning for freedom.”

FeminismJune 27, 2014

Joshua DuBois makes an unconvincing argument against the criticism of President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative.